Re: Developer 6 dislikes Oracle_home

Glen,

[Quoted] Oracle Developer 6.0 does not support multiple oracle home, i.e., it can only be installed in the
existing Oracle Home.

So far, the only Oracle products that support multiple Oracle Homes are Oracle Server 8.x and
OAS 4.0.x.

Regards,

"mstjohn" <mstjohn_at_kgo.csc.com> wrote in message news:38D26BB6.9A16B020_at_kgo.csc.com...
> I'm trying to install Developer 6, as downloaded from OTN,
> under Windows NT. Since my c: is full of older Oracle products,
> I'm trying to install it to an oracle_home on another disk.
> The Developer installer pops up the errors
>
> "Oracle Developer - <names of various product parts> does not
> support multiple installations and therefore cannot
> be installed on 'dev_home'. It can only be installed
> in 'DEFAULT_HOME.'
> In order to install Oracle Developer - <names of various product parts>,
> please run the Oracle Installer again, and
> select 'DEFAULT_HOME' as the target location."
>
> DEFAULT_HOME is currently on c:, of course.
> Can I install Developer without wiping all my disks and starting
> over to put Developer on c:? I know the multiple
> Oracle homes are recorded in my registry. Is it safe to
> change those values to reassign DEFAULT_HOME to
> a disk with some space? I'm concerned that may create
> other problems. Oracle doesn't seem to manage
> its homes in any of the supplied utilities.
>
> I searched the docs, checked Oracle's OracleInstall, and
> searched for obvious keywords at other places, but found
> no discussion of this problem. Is there a way around it
> short of discarding what's already on the DEFAULT_HOME disk?
>
> Thanks for any info.
> --
> Glenn Holliday ghollida_at_kgo.csc.com
> Computer Sciences Corporation
Received on Sat Mar 18 2000 - 17:30:38 CET